Peter René Körner

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Peter René Körner (* 8. December 1921 in Berlin , † 20th March 1989 in Rösrath ) was a German actor , singer , presenter and radio speaker .

Life

Körner started his career after the Second World War as a pop singer with titles such as So much swing , The sweetest fruits , Small modest apartment , In the old harbor bar or Hannelore . Many of his songs reflected the longing for an “ideal world” - similar to the homeland films that were emerging in these years , while others specifically addressed the issues of reconstruction and the economic miracle.

In the 1950s he sang numerous successful hits (So much Schwung, 1950) and also acted as a popular operetta and singspiel buffo on records, for example in My Sister and I , Bewitching Misses and Marietta by Walter Kollo.

In 1952, Körner made his first film, Traumschöne Nacht , directed by Ralph Baum , alongside Rudolf Platte and Hubert von Meyerinck . This was followed continuously by film and later also television productions, initially mainly in shallow entertainment films. For example, he was seen in 1962 as one of the main actors alongside Willy Millowitsch and Elsa Scholten in a Millowitsch Theater performance in the very successful comedy Tante Jutta from Calcutta .

At the same time he worked as a radio and radio play speaker . His best-known roles included those in nine episodes of the WDR radio play series Paul Temple from 1949 to 1961, such as in Paul Temple and the Curzon case , Paul Temple and the Vandyke and Paul Temple case and the Madison case with u. a. René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes and Kurt Lieck . In addition, the unmistakable singing and speaking voice of Peter René Körner can also be heard in many operetta productions of the WDR (conductor: Franz Marszalek ). He even had a leading role in 1957 in the Eduard Künneke operetta "Liselott".

In the WDR children's program, Körner became a popular performer in the 1960s. Above all, he became known through the series Kasper and René , fairy tale rats with Kasper and René , Ratereise with Kasper and René and finally in 1970 and 1971 court theater with Kasper and René , which he together with the puppeteers Friedrich Arndt (as Kasper), Rudolf Fischer (as Kasper's grandmother) and Wolfgang Buresch (as the dog Wuschel) shot. The Kasper series took Körner and the team to filming all over the world, even on the busy streets of Tokyo .

Also with Buresch, who this time spoke the rabbit Caesar , as well as with Paul Kuhn , Bill Ramsey and Arno Görke , Körner stood in front of the WDR camera in 1968 for the television film The rabbit Caesar has birthday .

Körner combined his popularity as a star of children's television with his singing talent by recording various nursery rhyme records such as songs for large and small children (together with the “Cologne Children's Choir”) or the Good Night Children's Primer. On the cover of the LP Hallo Kinder, here is René , you saw him again with Hohnsteiner Kasper and the dog Wuschel from earlier TV programs. He also published several books.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Körner played more theater again. He remained present on television through the broadcasts of the plays from the Cologne theater in Vringsveedel , where he was seen alongside Trude Herr . He also played with Herr in 1983 in the Christmas grotesque Schöne Bescherung ; he shot The Blue Heinrich with Willy Millowitsch .

In 1985/1989 he was involved as a narrator in the production of Janosch's dream hour .

At the end of the 1980s, the smoker fell ill with lung cancer, from which he died on March 20, 1989.

Appreciation

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2006, the WDR produced a program with the title Mit Götz, Maus und Melon , which was moderated by Götz Alsmann . Alsmann confessed himself to be a fan of Kasper and René and presented a large number of excerpts from the WDR children's programs with Peter René Körner for the first time since it was first broadcast.

Works

Movies

  • 1952: A dreamy night
  • 1954: Your mouth promises me love
  • 1955: Premiere on Metropol TV (singer)
  • 1959: The Tired Theodor - Television (Eusebius Findeisen)
  • 1960: Charming Julia - television
  • 1960: The House of Puzzles - Television (George Watson)
  • 1960: Paradise - television
  • 1960: a throne for Christine
  • 1961: A star on a summer night
  • 1961: Spanish Legend - Television (Mexican guest)
  • 1962: Aunt Jutta from Calcutta - television (Dr. Hannemann)
  • 1977: Otto der Treue - television (Dr. Werner)
  • 1986–90: Janosch's dream hour - television (narrator)

Radio plays (selection)

Books

  • (Ed.): Children are also people , Hanover 1971.
  • Co-author: Little Casimir and his clever cockatoo , Düsseldorf 1972.

CD

  • Peter René Körner - His most beautiful recordings - from the years 1949 to 1953 (2 CDs, 36 tracks), RV Musik, No. 1413, EAN 4024322014138
  • u. a.
  • So much momentum
  • The sweetest fruits
  • Hannelore
  • When my penny drops
  • Tarragona
  • Where the apples ripen along the way
  • The woman comes straight from Spain
  • The seaman's yarn
  • Hein, take your accordion
  • When Hein is in Rio

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personal data
SURNAME Körner, Peter René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, singer, presenter and radio broadcaster
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1989
Place of death Rösrath